The Three Stooges, I’ve Got A Secret, Password, What’s My Line?, To Tell the Truth, The Dating Game, The Disney hour on Sunday nights– with the peacock and musical flourish and the words, “The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC…” which we first saw in all its glory in the mid-60’s when my grandparents got a Magnavox console color TV– the big cabinet with the tiny hexagonal or octagonal screen; Bonanza, The Rifleman, Mister Ed, Green Acres, Gilligan’s Island, Petticoat Junction, The Monkees, Laugh-In, The Carol Burnett Show, the Roadrunner cartoons, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Gumby, Davey and Goliath, and an occasional movie– A Christmas Carol, The Wizard of Oz.
I remember tuning in for the live broadcast of Peter Pan, and maybe Cinderella— with Leslie Ann Warren, though I can’t remember if that was live or pre-recorded.
We watched the evening news with some regularity– only 3 networks to choose from, but it would be whatever station we could pick up. I think it was often CBS, possibly with Edward R. Murrow at first, but then Walter Cronkite, or John Chancellor on NBC. And, though it wasn’t a regular show, I remember being riveted to the TV for a whole weekend in late November 1963. I was nine.
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